#IndieBooksLoveFest-#Saltember

Hello hello hello!

After spending August in the wonderful company of Eye Books, September is going to be a bit of a mixup-still with the focus on UK based Indie Publishers, but with a bit of a split focus.

#Saltember is going to be my attempt to read as many books published by the fabulous indie , Salt Publishing.

They are celebrating their 20th year in publishing this year, so what better time than now to check them out.

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”Salt was founded in 1999. Our first publications were poetry and we rapidly developed an award-winning international list. We went on to win the Nielsen Innovation Award in the IPG’s Independent Publishing Awards in 2008 for our work in taking poetry to new audiences. Salt’s publishing soon expanded to include children’s poetry, Native American poetry, Latin American poetry in translation, poetry criticism, essays, literary companions, biography, theatre studies, writers’ guides and poetry chapbooks as well as a ground-breaking series of eBook novellas. By the end of 2010 we had published over 1,000 products and sold them internationally.

In 2011, we began to focus our efforts on developing our fiction list. Since that time we have achieved considerable critical success in numerous literary awards, including winning the Polari First Book Prize (three times), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award (twice) and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Most notably, we have twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted in the Costa Book Awards.

Today, Salt is considered one of UK’s leading independent publishers – a growing business that has an international impact.”

Apart from my gifted copy of ‘Haverscroft’ by S.A Harris, I have sourced my review copies of the books myself.

If you have read, or would like to recommend a Salt book, give us a wave and let us know!

In between will be reviews of the 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain, they were my introduction to the American police procedural and I am curious to see how they have held up in the intervening years since I lst picked one up..

My other half of September is going to be a horror based readathon.

The wonderful Ladies Of Horror Fiction and Hey Little Thrifter are celevrating LOHF’s first birthday by having a month long readathon.

Check them out on Instagram here and here!

My instagram account is booksinmyhallway so please feel free to join me on there to see what books I picked up to join in with the recommended tags.

All the books will be reviewed here if Instagram is not your thing.

Drop me a line with your reading plans for September, anything you are looking forward to being released this month, or if you are joining in with a readathon.

It’s going to be a fun month leading into my alltime favourite season and celebration-Halloween!